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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
An unprecedented and definitive collection of rabble-rousing writings on women’s health, Voices of the Women’s Health Movement explores a range of provocative topics from reproductive rights to sexuality to motherhood. Trail-blazing advocate Barbara Seaman and health activist Laura Eldridge bring...
Surrealist Women
An International Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project—achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed,...
by F. Elizabeth Gray
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly creative, which has not. Gray visits the importance...
A Thesaurus of Women
From Cherry Blossoms to Cell Phones
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
A Thesaurus of Women: From Cherry Blossoms to Cell Phones offers a social presentation of history linking places with the unfamiliar female faces traced to their creation. The places, both of long ago and today, are familiar, famous, and global. This collection unmasks the hidden faces of the real...
Dancing in Paradise, Burning in Hell
Women in Maine's Historic Working Class Dance Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
An often overlooked segment of Maine (and American) history is the story of women in the working class dance industries. Generally looked upon with a gasp of shock, burlesque and vaudeville dancing, and later taxi dancing and marathon dancing, were often the only way for women to survive (In taxi...
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices
Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960. On the cotton farms of Central Texas, women's labor was essential. In addition to working untold hours in the fields, women shouldered most family responsibilities: keeping house,...
Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists
The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In the supposedly enlightened ’60s and ’70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn’t talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 — with no statistics, no money and little public support — five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened...
Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling
Women and Congressional Elections
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Why has the integration of women into Congress been so slow? Is there a "political glass ceiling" for women? Although women use the same strategic calculations as men to decide when to run, the decision regarding where to run is something else. While redistricting has increasingly protected...
Generations
A Century of Women Speak about Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
“This is the first book to show the sweeping change among American women in this century, and to do so in an irresistible, intimate, and popular way.” —Gloria Steinem
The women in this landmark work of oral history are from diverse ethnic, geographic, and social backgrounds, and they tell...
The Rise of Enlightened Sexism
How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. In The Rise Of Enlightened Sexism, Susan J. Douglas, one of America's most entertaining and insightful cultural critics,...
If Women Ran the World, Sh*t Would Get Done
Celebrating All the Wonderful, Amazing, Stupendous, Inspiring, Butt-kicking Things Women Do
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Dream about the kind of world you’d run. And use the questions and pages in this book to write them down. Make your own dreams come true!!! Divided into five sections each including Real Life Stories, lists of things women do (for example, 25 Things Women Do for their Families Between 7:55 and 8:00...
All the Women in My Family Sing
Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
All the Women in My Family Sing is an anthology documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It is a vital collection of prose and poetry whose topics range from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company, to escaping the killing fields...
Well-Read Lives
How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them.
Some women, like Edith and Alice...
Out on Assignment
Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community of female journalists drawn by the hundreds to major...